It is a bias because it is a prior assumption rather than something that is learned in the course of training. Mitchell’s Machine Learning has a very clear explanation of inductive bias and why it is necessary for learning to occur. There are some examples of inductive bias at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_bias
It is a bias because it is a prior assumption rather than something that is learned in the course of training. Mitchell’s Machine Learning has a very clear explanation of inductive bias and why it is necessary for learning to occur. There are some examples of inductive bias at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_bias